I have a credit card again! Yay. Dana won't have to be my Sugar Mama this weekend after all.
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Aug 27, 2007 1:31:43 pm PDT #7094 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Connie Neil - Aug 27, 2007 1:40:12 pm PDT #7095 of 10001
brillig
only place without anything really bad was Utah
We're one earthquake away from being a liquification textbook illustration. Then there are the droughts and wildfires.
You'll never get me to live where there are tornados. I'd rather have hurricanes. Those you have plenty of warning for.
Allyson - Aug 27, 2007 1:41:49 pm PDT #7096 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Thanks for the shopping advice/hairpats.
Clothes shopping ends in tears, so I'm freaking out at having to do this. It's like a scheduled pap smear or something. Nothing but awful misery and that horrible anticipation of inevitable embarassment/humiliation.
Burrell - Aug 27, 2007 2:00:22 pm PDT #7097 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh dear, paperdol. Is there any way to avoid the shopping? Perhaps you have the pieces to pull together a nice outfit (that skirt was very cute) so instead of shopping for something difficult, like a blouse, you can get a little cardigan to wear over a top you already have, or new earrings, or snazzy stocking or a pair of shoes.
Kat - Aug 27, 2007 2:01:48 pm PDT #7098 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm sorry paperdol! I wish I could help but I think I've gone on shopping forays with you and I think I end up pissing you off.
I would offer to go to Torrid with you, but they only have sort of disposable clothes.
Today Noah and Grace are 5 months old. It shocks me.
Burrell - Aug 27, 2007 2:11:08 pm PDT #7099 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Today Noah and Grace are 5 months old. It shocks me.
Yoips! How did that happen so fast?
Kat, that reminds me, I put aside a bunch of Franny and Isaac's favorite toys as well as some blankets. The blankets are mostly handmade quilts and really lovely and soft.
Allyson - Aug 27, 2007 2:12:34 pm PDT #7100 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
You always pick out clothes for me that are 2 sizes or more too small, and I have to say, "Kat, that is 2 sizes too small," over and over, and then it gets more upsetting.
It's not your fault, I own my issues and have named each of them, and take them out back for a whipping every now and again. I hope they never get the vote.
Ginger - Aug 27, 2007 2:15:21 pm PDT #7101 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'd prefer a Pap smear to shopping. I hate shopping, especially clothes shopping, with the heat of a thousand suns. I've thought you looked great in every picture I've seen of you, paperdol, but I know a million people saying that to you won't get rid of those body demons. Think of why you'll be there, though. You've written a great book. It got published. People love it. They're coming to see the person who wrote it and bask in her snarkiness. They will not care how you look.
Burrell - Aug 27, 2007 2:20:33 pm PDT #7102 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
They will not care how you look.
It's not so much that we don't care as that we can see the beautiful, sexy woman standing there. It makes me sad that paperdol can't see herself the way I see her, but I understand how it is.
beth b - Aug 27, 2007 2:27:17 pm PDT #7103 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I think you could go with something as simple as this,paperdol.
I like this jacket - leave it open with a balck or white t-shirt underneath
and then I like this too
I think there are other options - but these are simple and should help make you feel comfortable -
put on some cute black and white shoes - and there you go.
I wish I could help more